About the authors
| First name, Middle name, Last name, Scientific degree, Scientific rank, Current position. Full and brief name of the organization, The organization address. | Nadyrova Kh.G. – doctor of architecture, associate professor E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering The organization address: 420043, Russia, Kazan, Zelenaya st., 1 |
| Title of the article | Features of the development of medieval urban culture of the Volga-Kama region |
| Abstract. | In the X-XVI centuries in the Volga-Kama region was formed and developed a kind of urban culture. Its development had certain features that distinguished it from the development of urban cultures of other regions of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These features were determined by a combination of various factors and conditions having an impact on the urban culture of the Volga-Kama region. It was developed in the context of interaction between sedentary and nomadic civilizations, pagan and Muslim cultures. Forming, incorporating and evolving in line with East European and Eurasian urban, regional urban culture at each stage of development was adopted, layered on a traditional basis and processed borrowings and influences from other regions and countries: the Khazar khanate, the Central Asia, the Middle East, the Russian state, the Crimea, Golden Horde, Byzantium, Ottoman Empire, etc. Each period of its development included several stages: recovery, sustainable development, decay, disorder, fracture, revival, rise or degradation in a new environment. This is indicative of a cyclic wave pattern of development of urban culture in the Volga-Kama region. This was original, the northernmost location of the urban culture of Eastern Europe Muslim. Migrated to the region types of Muslim religious and memorial buildings in brick and stone structures developed continuously for over six centuries. The main distinguishing feature of urban culture in the Volga-Kama region was the preservation and development of regional types of dwellings and traditions of wooden construction. |
| Keywords. | urban culture, hierarchy, self-developing system, spatial-planning structure. |
| For citations: | Nadyrova Kh.G. Features of the development of medieval urban culture of the Volga-Kama region // Izvestiya KGASU. 2015. №2(32) P.48-52. |
